Anirvan Chatterjee

Curating the monthly Berkeley South Asian radical history walking tour. Trying to read a book a week. @[email protected] and

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

I cross-post to X, but it's not where I'm most active.

Find me on Mastodon: https://t.co/I6jlkbYcK4

Find me on BlueSky: https://t.co/8YNJlxv4Wh

Find me on Threads: https://t.co/Py2vIyAq3t

(Mastodon is my favorite of these, because of the community. Reach out if you have q's.)

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

A flight from US to India. People boarded the flight. Found out about the H1B news. Immediately disembarked fearing they won’t be allowed re-entry. Crazy

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

.@SenAlexPadilla is one of the most decent people I know.

This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.

Trump and his shock troops are out of control.

This must end now.

[New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic]

Come for one, face us all

#FreeMahmoud #FreeMomodou #FreeRumeysa #FreeBadar #FreeLeeqa

[Fatıma Tuba Yaylacı @FatimaTYaylaci]

I have known Rümeysa for ten years, my student, my TA & RA, my colleague. I can vouch for her ethics, her respect for human rights and her care in human relations, her kindness and honesty. Never carries hatred towards anyone in her heart! #freerumeysa

[MPAC @mpac_national]

🚨URGENT: MPAC demands the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student and F-1 visa holder abducted by DHS agents with no charges—on her way to an Iftar.

This is a chilling violation of civil liberties during Ramadan.

📢 Speak out. Call your Reps. #freerumeysa

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

The horrific moment that Tufts grad student and anti-war activist Rumeysa Ozturk was detained (kidnapped) by Trump’s ICE thugs.

Somerville, MA #FreePalestine #FreeRemeysa

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil.

https://t.co/BIBm1nsP3t

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

help us grow the alternatives to the big three

https://t.co/HeTp5nvq4S

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

Q: Are there any photo walk groups or meetups in Bangalore / Bengaluru, India? Asking for a friend.

#Bangalore #Bengaluru #MastIndia

[Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com) @sree]

As you can see, I've been writing about @DrJBhattacharya being a deplorable member of the #DesiHallofShame since 2021. His being in charge of NIH is scary.

Elon has ruined Twitter search, so I can't even find all the times I've pointed out, in detail, Dr. Bhattacharya's issues.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

These are the stories of nine health care workers at UCSF who dealt with censorship and punishment after speaking out about human rights for Palestinians. https://t.co/Q0G7W7gN1H

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

- wrote a script to prep the metadata (date, length, URL, desc, title, format), and put it into the right format

- looked at Library of Congress digital preservation guidelines, and realized I picked the wrong video format

- redownloaded everything

- uploaded, handed off!

2/2

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

digital archiving accomplishment of the week:

- confirmed legal issues

- researched yt-dlp and related tools, used LLM to understand some of the options

- retrieved 85 videos associated with South Asian American civil rights

- prepped thumbnails, SRT subtitle data

1/2

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

We’re all looking for a silver bullet. But what we did in the 2010s didn’t sustain in the way we hoped.

https://t.co/brm2aVBDFJ

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

“Safeguarding Californians’ access to abortion is personal for Bonta. In 2022, she revealed she had an abortion at the age of 21. ‘I chose to own my body,’ she said at the time. It’s a decision that helped her break the ‘cycle of poverty in my family’”

https://t.co/pmsGBedJMw

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

Ever dealt with a nitpicky boss? Check out this design review from a senior graphic designer for ISIS

https://t.co/EFWnIw9CCa

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

TLDR: 21 red states sued the Biden administration to avoid disclosing their transportation emissions stats. Here are some of the numbers they were trying to avoid reporting.

https://t.co/2PrUyNB7HK

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

This is so real, and why it’s so important that we pay electeds a living wage. Only a small proportion of Bay Area mayors and city council members are renters.

https://t.co/5K9gaAU76d

[Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan]

This deep dive into the “MomBoard” is the best tech story you’ll read this week

https://t.co/dFaRJTPBJw